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Example sentences for "retract"

Lexicographically close words:
retourner; retrace; retraced; retraces; retracing; retractation; retracted; retractile; retracting; retraction
  1. I have re-read the extract from the "Religious Musings," and retract whatever invidious there was in my censure of it as elaborate.

  2. Henceforth I retract all my foul complaints of mercantile employment; look upon them as lovers' quarrels.

  3. In my new position I see no occasion and feel no inclination to retract a word of this.

  4. In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the National authority, on the part of the insurgents, as the only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery.

  5. I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.

  6. Though the Parliamentary censure dropped, they actually compelled Lord Camden to call on him to retract his magnanimous order.

  7. Before Louis was put on his trial Pitt and Grenville had decided that the French must retract their aggressive decree against Holland, backed up as it was by a claim to support malcontents in any land.

  8. Take my word for it, we often confirm men in wrong thinking by opposition, who, if left to themselves and their own hearts, would review their judgments, and even retract them.

  9. It was thus that, one day carried away by this delusion, I chanced to call her Lucy, and she laughingly begged me not to retract it, but so to call her always.

  10. Muller’s retractor is then inserted to retract the wound laterally, the hooks being made to engage the margins of the incision by means of forceps.

  11. The uvula may retract strongly at the moment of introducing the curette and then get crushed against the posterior pharyngeal wall: or it may be seized by mistake with the post-nasal forceps and be torn away.

  12. One assistant is employed to retract the soft tissues from the wound, another to keep it as dry as possible.

  13. I mentioned this to the First Consul, but nothing could make him retract his opinion.

  14. Moore declined to retract or qualify, and a rupture consequently took place.

  15. Here is your own declaration--the ink scarce dried--and you would retract it in this scandalous manner!

  16. Because he has brought in such a pleasant piece of news, I retract all I said just now.

  17. I hope no absurd Hitch could make you retract your own promise.

  18. Don't make me retract what I have avowed.

  19. The operator's right index finger (never the left) should be used to retract the patient's upper lip so that there is no danger of pinching the lip between the instrument and the teeth.

  20. During introduction, the fingers of the right hand retract the upper lip so as to prevent its being pinched between the laryngoscope and the teeth.

  21. Said he: "I have deliberately uttered my sentiments in that speech, and I will not retract one syllable of it.

  22. I retract all I said about disappointment, for I have since seen Naples, and it is the most beautiful and the gayest town in the world.

  23. And I am expected to retract the words which I uttered, or be shot?

  24. He will lie by the rule of three, and then retract all that he has said, without the least regard for himself or others.

  25. Then I will gratify his lighting propensities, as I do not feel disposed to retract words which, under the circumstances, he should have considered as harmless.

  26. I swore to have your life for your cowardice; but I retract the oath, and now let us be friends.

  27. Out of regard for the ladies and Herr von Osternau, I have hitherto taken no notice of your offensive expressions; your last remark touches my honour, and you will either retract it or give me satisfaction.

  28. This declaration, to which I add that I had no intention to offend, and that I gladly retract any expression that could be considered insulting, will, I hope, entirely accord with your wishes.

  29. It will be easy to retract his consent, especially since your appearance gives him a reason for declaring the engagement to Wangen null and void.

  30. I give you your choice: either you retract your offensive expressions, or you leave Castle Osternau this very day.

  31. Admitting that he decided in one night upon the measure, he added: "If I were to retract it of my own accord, it would imply that I myself thought it wrong, and that I had acted without the reflection which the gravity of the point demanded.

  32. In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the national authority, on the part of the insurgents, as the only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part of the government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery.

  33. I unconditionally retract my "professional warning to the liberal-minded public against Dr.

  34. I sprung away in search of Miss Arnold, that I might retract my promise of concealing from Miss Mortimer the affair of the masquerade.

  35. Longing to meet once more the glance of a friendly eye, I was more than half tempted to retract my general order for his exclusion.

  36. But the mischief was not yet totally irremediable; and dazzled by the romantic generosity of sacrificing her highest earthly joy to the restoration of her benefactor's quiet, she snatched a pen intending to retract her promise.

  37. Mr. Fox, however, would not retract the expression.

  38. Mariette and myself retract nothing we have said.

  39. As to what I have said of avarice, that passion whose consequences are so fruitful, I retract nothing; only I might have treated the subject more seriously had I known it to be a personal question.

  40. I hope you do not retract what you then said.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retract" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; abjure; abolish; abrogate; annul; back; backwater; belie; cancel; cede; contest; contradict; controvert; counter; countermand; cringe; cross; deny; disallow; disavow; disclaim; disgorge; disown; disprove; dispute; drop; duck; dump; flinch; forgo; forswear; gainsay; impugn; invalidate; nullify; oppose; override; overrule; palinode; quitclaim; recall; recant; recede; refute; relinquish; render; renounce; repeal; repudiate; rescind; resign; retract; retreat; retrograde; reverse; revoke; rid; sacrifice; shrink; shy; spare; surrender; suspend; swallow; take; unsay; vacate; void; waive; wince; withdraw; yield